The Bengali category was added with the 2009/2010 edition and became one of the award’s most courageous communities.
Notable winners in the Bengali category
- Ali Mahmed’s blog (2009/2010, Jury and User) — the first Bengali winner
- Asif Mohiuddin (2012, User) — the Bangladeshi blogger later jailed and attacked
- Shikkhok (2013) — free online education in Bengali
- BanglaBraille (2014, Best Innovation) — crowdsourced textbooks for visually impaired children
- Mukto Mona (2015, Social Change) — the secularist blog co founded by Avijit Roy
- Infolady (2013, Global Media Forum Award) — trained women bringing internet services to remote villages by bicycle
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